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Emerson String Quartet / Calidore String Quartet

August 28, 2017, 8:00 pm

Calidore String Quartet

The Emerson String Quartet and Calidore String Quartet join for a performance that was recorded live on July 24, 2017 in the Martin Theatre at Ravinia.

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Emerson String Quartet and Calidore String Quartet perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11 (“Serioso”), R. Strauss’s String Sextet from Capriccio, Shostakovich’s Two Pieces for String Octet and Mendelssohn’s String Octet.

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Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

Emerson String Quartet / Calidore String Quartet

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